Hovis’ Friday diary: ‘I by chance flattened her right into a conifer tree after which stood on a useless pigeon’

Expensive diary,
It’s day 15,978 of the human strangles epidemic; hope is disappearing quicker than human waistlines, human-free days are a distant reminiscence for a lot of, whereas others battle to recollect which one their human is, discerning solely by the color meals bucket they carry. The horse council for equine rights is lobbying the Hague for extreme bathing to be labeled in the identical approach as water boarding (they’ve clearly seen my mom washing my forelock), and that any lungeing which incurs a circle tariff greater than 50 must be banned with fast impact.
Social media rages with enormous debates — no, not the frankly boring to trip or to not trip query — however issues way more divisive in nature:
Which human equestrian star actually baked the higher cake?
If AP had been racing match would he have gained the 5km run?
Ought to Ben Hobnob ever be allowed out in public once more after THAT dance?
And:
Did that Baskin Robins chicken actually feed her fella to a feline? Was it Ggrrrreeeaaaatttt?
These, peoples, are the intense points to be mentioned. Properly, that and the small subject of individuals discussing my weight on my Fb pages the opposite day like I’m some kind of a) prized bullock (and sure, I meant to make use of the U and never the O) or b) celeb face of a failed weight loss plan craze. Can I simply level out most of you people are going to come back off field relaxation unable to recollect what your toes appear like and unable to maintain a trot for greater than two minutes without having CPR, thus none of you, with the doable exception of the Wicks, are ready to judge my manly physique as I cruise round mom like a muscled shark circling a completely blubbered walrus. As I proved, I can maintain an unasked for canter across the mothership for longer than she will swear at me with out repeating herself, and since her vocabulary comprises extra expletives than the typical Quentin Palomino movie, then you possibly can in all probability get a deal with on how match I’m — and the way a lot I hearken to my mom…
The actual fact I’m solely presupposed to be trotting and strolling to construct health is a small irrelevance — I’m solely considering of Herman the German Needleman and the way lengthy it’s been since I noticed him final, though to be honest, with the present human obsession with measuring temperatures, I’m undecided my derriere would thank me for risking its violation…
Whereas we’re as regards to my Fb pages, I might additionally wish to appropriate the misinformation propagated by she-who-likes-to-tell-tales-taller-than-she-is-which-isn’t-hard-as-she’s-a-short-fat-arse. The opposite day on perambulating throughout my discipline in a mature and measured style, I failed to identify the boss girl’s son close to the greenhouse. The mothership might declare that I had a) been advised this and b) had grunted some kind of affirmation, however a) I normally tune out all the pieces mom says till all I can hear is “blah blah blah”, and b) I presumably had wind. As such, the sudden realisation upon exiting the sphere entrance that we weren’t actually, as beforehand thought, alone, resulted in my involuntary ninja-like reactions kicking in and executing strikes that present Darwin was certainly proper and solely the fittest shall survive. I used to be not, as reported by the maligning mothership, performing like a big cartoon canine and leaping into her arms like a damsel in misery. Nor did I, as once more reported with as a lot accuracy because the Each day Fail, fail to acknowledge the presence of a giant purple tractor, regardless of her apparently telling me it was parked exterior the home. I merely allowed it to be lulled right into a false sense of safety that I used to be strolling in direction of it with the unsuspecting nature of a 20-year-old male close to Joan Collins, earlier than affecting an escape and evade transfer which might have the SAS in tears. Certainly, mom herself was in floods, however solely as a result of I by chance flattened her right into a conifer tree after which stood on a useless pigeon. Conflict is hard and there’ll at all times be casualties — though in my defence, the pigeon was already useless earlier than I stood on it. Both that or was actually actually good at enjoying sleeping lions — during which case, ooopsy…
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Anyway, I’m off to cover from mom and Aunty Em who’ve apparently joined one thing known as the pole membership. I’m undecided what horrifies me probably the most — the concept of getting to choose my toes up or the concept that is their extracurricular approach of paying off my vets payments…
Laters,
Hovis
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